Monday 29 September 2008DISPOSSESSED (file photo). . . Some white farmers who lost properties in farm invasions HARARE – At least 35 white farmers have been evicted from their properties in a fresh wave of farm invasions that highlights continuing instability in Zimbabwe despite a power-sharing deal signed two weeks ago.

According to the 2007 survey - which looked particularly at grade three children - the overall score obtained in literacy was 36%, with 35% for numeracy. The survey was conducted among more than 54 000 grade three pupils from more than 2 400 primary schools.

"African language mother-tongue speakers had lower average scores. For example, for Siswati and Xitsonga learners, the average numeracy scores were 24% and 20% respectively.

The literacy score for both Siswati and Tshivenda speakers was 26%.

Only about 10% of pupils surveyed performed well with a score of 70% or more.

"We would rather have poverty in freedom than riches in slavery," the country's independence leader, Sekou Toure, told the then French President General Charles de Gaulle in 1958.
With those words ringing in his ears, Gen de Gaulle reportedly left in a rage, forgetting his cap on the table.

As Guineans mark their 50th year of independence from France, a popular cry to be heard in the capital, Conakry, is: "Fifty years of poverty!"

"We would rather have poverty in freedom than riches in slavery," the country's independence leader, Sekou Toure, told the then French President General Charles de Gaulle in 1958.
With those words ringing in his ears, Gen de Gaulle reportedly left in a rage, forgetting his cap on the table.

As Guineans mark their 50th year of independence from France, a popular cry to be heard in the capital, Conakry, is: "Fifty years of poverty!"

O swear, blacks have got to be the dumbest species on the planet. They cannot even mange the simplest of tasks. I do not understand why countries import these dredges of society. All they do is pull down the standard of living for everyone else.

Guinea has enormous mineral wealth and the country's fortune over the next 50 years depends to a large extent on well these resources are managed.

They cannot even put 2 and 2 together to use this great natural resource to get some electricity. What idiots. I wish that liberals would just leave negroes to themselves, hell, in 50 years we would rid ourselves of the problem. Between starving, disease, and murdering each other, the worlds negro problem would solve itself.

Nelspruit - The Ehlanzeni District Municipality (EDM) in Nelspruit has decided that white people will no longer be allowed to do business with the council.
A racial uproar is looming in the Mpumalanga capital after this decision was taken by the council's senior managers at a lekgotla last week.
The lekgotla was chaired by Hugh Mbatha, the council's municipal manager, and attended by members of the council's mayoral committee.
The decision was officially worded: "Stop the appointment of white consultants, contractors and any other service providers and empower black consultants, contractors and other businessmen."

According to documents in Beeld's possession, this decision is being justified in terms of the "implementation of the government's policy and guidelines for broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE)."

Gravett Herbst, leader of the Democratic Alliance caucus in the EDM, said: "This is a racist decision and utter discrimination against whites."

Nelspruit - The Ehlanzeni District Municipality (EDM) in Nelspruit has decided that white people will no longer be allowed to do business with the council.
A racial uproar is looming in the Mpumalanga capital after this decision was taken by the council's senior managers at a lekgotla last week.
The lekgotla was chaired by Hugh Mbatha, the council's municipal manager, and attended by members of the council's mayoral committee.
The decision was officially worded: "Stop the appointment of white consultants, contractors and any other service providers and empower black consultants, contractors and other businessmen."

According to documents in Beeld's possession, this decision is being justified in terms of the "implementation of the government's policy and guidelines for broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE)."

Gravett Herbst, leader of the Democratic Alliance caucus in the EDM, said: "This is a racist decision and utter discrimination against whites."